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The recent Annual Byron Bay Surf Festival, held for four days over February 22nd – 25th was as usual, a celebration of pure stoke with an eclectic mix of local, national and international surfers and related surf culture.

FLORA CHRISTIN
‘THE GIRL WITH THE PINK BOARD’

C I T I Z E N S O F T H E S L I D E

FLORA CHRISTIN is a 26-year-old Indonesian longboard surfer.
With enough grace to the mile, you’d guess she’d been born to it.
Yet it was just last year she took up the sport!
She now has a surfboard sponsorship with Folklore Surf and other brands have followed suit.Flora will be competing in the Asian Surf Champions Tour in Japan this year, as Indonesia’s first female longboard surfer.

From Florida USA
A M A N D A
G I B E R S O N has been in our sights for sometime now.We loved this photo on Amanda’s Instagram gallery,
andwe’re seeing a whole lot more of her now as an Akela Surf ambassador. We caught up with Amanda to chat travel, boards and the other photo on Instagram
that had people paying attention…